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Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, would consider the ROS package repository an "Extras" repository. As described on that page,

There are times when you might want to add extra repositories to your system's software sources (that is, in addition to the repositories provided by Canonical).

That's exactly what the ROS repository is. It's an extra repository that is not provided by Canonical.